Rhythm Lab Records: Career Start | SONIC SYNTHESIS: Meet The Artists

The group’s first release, ‘Sonic Synthesis: STEMS’, featured Northern-based industrial pop artist CURRENTMOODGIRL and alternative R&B artist Yelena Lashimba, with both artists (independently of each other) exploring agency and toxicity in their work, commenting on the difficulties and the triumph of finding your voice in environments that wish to commodify, objectify and ultimately strip that agency away from you. A message that resonates with many cis/trans women as well as non binary people the world over.

Most recently, during ‘Sonic Synthesis: ROOTS’, artist duos Sindysman/China Lilly and Micco/Elias crafted a soundscape based around a theme of dreams and sleep, focusing on the escapism that dreams provide us as the only lockdown-friendly means of travel and the paralysing effects they can have when you’re stuck dreaming and forget you’re asleep, taking centre stage, creatively.

Sporting an added bonus track from artists Callum Hultquist and LINTD, ‘Sonic Synthesis’ is a 9 track digital compilation that celebrates the openly collaborative space that Rhythm Lab Records have carefully curated in Manchester over the past six months. The bonus track, titled U ‘n’ I, is an electronic folk ballad, brandishing a smutty but intimate rap feature, that juxtaposes the feelings of tension associated with joint experience, with the playful tensions of sex and rebellion. The instrumental by Callum is soulful and hypnotic, allowing both artists to flourish their unique vocals and add to the trance-like state the track induces in the listener. 

Sonic Synthesis: is released on June 9th and has been made possible by support from the Youth Music Incubator Fund.